Be honest,miss boss....

If she is doing all her work, she should not have to now do extra chores to take up every second of the day. I had a very similar experience as a nanny. At my last position I was there for 6 years. Children grow up and then school and social activities take up a lot of their time. The parents then decided that they still needed me all day, because they didn't want to be inconvenienced on snow days, sick days, delayed openings etc. But then when they realized I had lots of time on my hands, they started creating jobs for me to do. Elaborate dinners, sorting through children's clothes and storing them seasonally, and
by sizes, cleaning the car, organizing pantry and cleaning refrigerator. Well, that great job was no longer appealed to me and they just didn't get it. But it was nice knowing you and a new job for me.

I know exactly what you mean, Every time I would do the laundry, I would have to reorganize the children's entire drawers. Even daily! I would leave at night with the drawers nice and organized and in the morning when I went to get clothes to dress them for school, the drawers would be upside down. How much mess should be involved in getting a pair of pajamas? and really, do your children really need 30 pairs of pajamas each?

I know exactly what you mean, Every time I would do the laundry, I would have to reorganize the children's entire drawers. Even daily! I would leave at night with the drawers nice and organized and in the morning when I went to get clothes to dress them for school, the drawers would be upside down. How much mess should be involved in getting a pair of pajamas? and really, do your children really need 30 pairs of pajamas each?

If she is doing all her work, she should not have to now do extra chores to take up every second of the day. I had a very similar experience as a nanny. At my last position I was there for 6 years. Children grow up and then school and social activities take up a lot of their time. The parents then decided that they still needed me all day, because they didn't want to be inconvenienced on snow days, sick days, delayed openings etc. But then when they realized I had lots of time on my hands, they started creating jobs for me to do. Elaborate dinners, sorting through children's clothes and storing them seasonally, and
by sizes, cleaning the car, organizing pantry and cleaning refrigerator. Well, that great job was no longer appealed to me and they just didn't get it. But it was nice knowing you and a new job for me.

can we just address that helicopter parenting doesnt necessarily mean parents who are all over their kids.... OP you ARE a helicopter parent. You hired someone to take care of a middle schooler. essentially she is doing the same thing as you would be.... helicoptering.

Also.... if you give me a list of tasks, I complete them... THEY ARE DONE. I am done. You should accept the fact that your nanny has done everything you asked with time to spare... and maybe she might want to just read.

-An MB

Can't put up with slob parents. The nanny is not the servant girl. Let them pick up after themselves already. If you allow them to behave like that, then the kids will be slobs to.

Seriously WAH DB asked me to reorganize the fridge was and while I was still doing it he went into the trash can to inspect everything I threw out. He proceeded to take something out that expired 6 months ago and told me "things don't always expire when they say they will" grumbled and walked away. But this is also the guy who would leave his dishes around the sink when he saw that I had just loaded the dishwasher. Ugh

OP, is the "organizing" in her contract? If not, she is doing the job you hired her to do, and you can either accept that or fire her for not "going above and beyond".

If the organizing is in her contract, then yes, you could say, "Hey, if you have downtime tonight, can you go through the fridge and toss older stuff please?"

BUT don't ask her to do any organizing if you aren't capable of accepting what she does without complaint. Don't go behind her and "save" things she tossed from your office, or grumble in her hearing or your kids hearing about her tossing "perfectly good" leftovers.

If you are in any way controlling about your house, let the poor nanny alone. Why? Because you won't EVER be happy with how she does this "organizing" and she will know and either be upset that she can't read your mind or flat out pi$$ed off that you expect her to read your mind.

And if she had organized your fridge (which is not light housekeeping, byw) than you'd be on here complaining she DID organize your fridge and threw out some precious left overs or something.

Hire a personal asst./tutor and move on. You're a long day

Ha, ha!

OP, please fire the girl. Let her find an employer who pays her properly for her education and who doesn't feel the need to use her as a house servant.

Than, you find yourself someone who is willing to be your nanny/maid/house manager/little bitch for a measly $15 an hour.

Anonymous wrote:PP get a life. You're the troll for claiming every damn post is written by a troll!

Actually, no I'm not.

I've never called troll before, but this woman cannot be serious. Fired? Talk to her before you fire the woman? And if she is so wealthy why is she paying $15 an hour for a nanny with a degree? Please.

Anonymous wrote:As if office workers don't spend time making idle chit chat and surfing facebook on the clock. Please!

Apparently, some of you office workers who claim to be diligently working on the clock all day, are also surfing all day.
Oh, kaaaay.....

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Anonymous wrote:You take your hard-earned money and spend $15 AN HOUR paying someone and then come back to me and tell me now you feel when you catch them doing leisurely activities. This is a job. There's no such thing as "downtime" when you're on the clock. To those of you with office jobs- can you imagine finishing the days tasks and then kicking your feet up in your office and reading a book? I don't think so. If you were a good employee, you'd find other tasks to busy yourself with. Jesus Christ. Today's youth is seriously lacking decent work ethic.

I have plenty of friends in office jobs that seem to find plenty of downtime during their day.

And you keep saying 15 AN HOUR like its some sort of amazing rate. It's really not. Fairly average. I currently make $13/hr (1 kid) and my employers don't expect me to do any house keeping beyond the most basic cleaning up after myself and the kids. You'd have to pay me a lot more than an extra $2/hr to get me to spend every free second scrubbing your fridge.

OP is paying $15 after taxes (net) so it is actually more than $2 if you are paid $13/hr gross.

When did the OP ever state that she is paying taxes to her nanny/housekeeper/assistant? She's probably paying cash.

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